Tag: "plug-in hybrid"

Plug-in Hybrids Get a Boost

Plug-in Hybrids Get a Boost

Today's San Francisco Chronicle reports on the California Air Resources Board's decision to require automakers to produce more low-emissions cars such as plug-in hybrids and on the plug-ins that GM, Toyota and Ford are now testing. If you're curious about how plug-in hybrids actually achieve 100 miles per gallon, watch Plug-in Hybrid Cars, the story [...]

 
The New Clean Tech

The New Clean Tech

If investment is any guide, California's renewable energy companies are leaping into the new year. Investors poured billions of dollars into clean tech in 2007 to catapult green technologies to market. In the first three quarters of 2007, U.S. venture capital firms invested $2.6 billion in clean tech companies. That's compared with $1.8 billion for [...]